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Notes

IB Assessment Statements

Rutherford Chapter 12 & 13

3.4.5 Evaluate soil management strategies in a named commercial farming system and in a named subsistence farming system

3.5.1 Outline the issues involved in the imbalance in global food supply

3.5.2 Compare and contrast the efficiencies of terrestrial and aquatic food production systems

3.5.3 Compare and contrast the inputs and outputs of materials and energy, the system characteristics, and evaluate the relative environmental impacts for two named food production systems

3.5.4 Discuss the links that exist between social systems and food production systems

Resources

Agriculture

Botany of Desire: The Potato
Chipotle Ad: Back to the Beginning
Types of Erosion Control
Grocery Store Wars
History of Certain Plants
Biodiversity International
FAO
Global Crop Diversity
Heifer International
Heifer International Alton Brown Ad
How much water does it take to grow...
Dow and Monsanto Team Up
Phosphorus Footprint of Your Meat
Bananas Impact Ecosystems

IPM

Integrated Pest Managment Example

Food

Betting on Food Prices
Eating a Low Carbon Diet
The Meatrix I
The Meatrix II
The Circle of Responsibility
Black Gold Trailer
Got Mercury?
Choose My Plate
SeaFood Watch
Audubon's Society's Fish Advisory
Build Your Own Beef
100 Mile Diet
American Livestock Breeds Conservancy
Free Rice: Earn Rice for UNICEF
Nat Geo Food Diversity
Heirloom Wheat Arives at Seed Vault

Aquaculture

Aquaculture: Build Your Own with Ikea
TED Ex Aquaponics
Fishing Down The Food Chain

GMOs

Global Distribution of GMOs
GMO Compass
Doomsday Seed Vault

& Society

Maize changed Society

Assignments


Maps showing Food Availability